[106] From Adi Parva section of Mahabharata.
[107] Saraswati's rival. Brahma took Gayatri, the milkmaid, as a second wife, because his chief wife, Saraswati, despite her wisdom, arrived late for a certain important ceremony, at which the spouse of the god was required.
[108] Unfaithful wives were transformed into jackals after death.
[109] Lokapala-Sabhakhyana section of Sabha Parva.
[110] Sons of the goddess Aditi. They are attendants of Varuna, their chief, as the Maruts are attendants of Indra.
[111] Adi Parva section of Mahabharata, Roy's trans., p. 635.
[112] The Tribes and Castes of Bengal. H. H. Risley (1892), vol. i, lxv, et seq.